Your assignment is to post two comments about your reading so far, and to respond to two other students’ comments.Your post must include parenthetical documentation and quotes from the text to back up your comments.Your responses should add to the discussion.Do no just say “I agree” or “I never thought of that.”You may indeed think these things, but you should add to that comment with your thoughts, and perhaps a question back to the original poster.
Here is a sample of what your post could look like.You do not have to write a post about the same subject that I wrote about here (in fact you shouldn’t); this is just an example.I want your observations, not mine.What I’d like you to do is copy the form.Make sure that you include quotes from the text and that you provide a page number so that your peers can look up the quote.I understand that you may have different copies of the texts, but a page number will get you close, especially if you include a chapter number.
Jane Eyre example:
The fire section in chapter 15 seems to me like a gothic horror story with a hint of mystery thrown in.Rochester acts like a gothic hero, all anger and resentment one minute, “In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre…What have you done with me, witch, sorceress?” (130) I understand that he was rudely awakened with water, but witch seems a tad extreme.Then the next moment he is so very solicitous asking Jane if she is cold, and if not to “take my cloak yonder; wrap it about [her]” (131) and to “place [her] feet on the stool, to keep them out of the wet.” (131) Why does he seem to vacillate so much between emotional extremes?There must be something about him or his life to have made him this way, but I haven’t seen it yet.
I’m not sure that I believe what he says about the fire’s cause.He blames Grace Poole, but does so in what Jane says is a “rather peculiar tone.” (132)Why is his tone peculiar unless he’d hiding something?He could be simply tired, but then he is also “glad [she is] the only person, besides [him]self” (132) that witnessed the event.If everything is aboveboard why is he glad that no one else knows about it?There definitely seems to be something else going on that we are being told at present.
